Rice market new hope

posted on 03 Feb 2014, 02:21 3 1. kane74 (Posts: 44; Member since: 24 Jan 2014) Moto Rice posted on 03 Feb 2014, 03:46 1 9. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009) Christ, cut the racism. posted on 03 Feb 2014, 04:37 1 13. strikercho (banned) (Posts: 156; Member since: 20 Mar 2012) Cut the what?! R u serious?? posted on 03 Feb 2014, 06:36 4 16. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011) I did not find the comment racist. I just did not find it funny. When people say "rice burner" that actually sounds worst but I don't believe it's an attack on Asian people. To me it's a small reliabe Asian made 4 cylinder car. The Japanese made these cars so popular during the 80's and 90's. Some people (including me) still want Honda's and Nissan's made in Japan instead of the US. The quality of my first car, a1984 Nissan 200sx, is still unmatched by the American cars released today. posted on 03 Feb 2014, 07:25 1 18. PhoneArenaUser … [Read more...] about Comments for : Poll results: Lenovo acquires Motorola. Are you excited about what the duo can bring to the market?

Much of the push to commercialize the first generation of genetically engineered crops has come from large companies in the United States and Western Europe. But the next big producers of biotech crops could very well be nations in the developing world. While battles over genetically modified foods have slowed the technology’s progress in Europe and North America, countries such as China and India are now gearing up to commercialize dozens of genetically modified plants in the next few years (see “Eating the Genes,”). The first such plants hit the market in the mid-1990s, and last year 13 nations allowed them to be grown commercially. Of those, five are in the developing world: Argentina, China, Mexico, South Africa and Uruguay. In fact, China and Argentina now rank among the top four growers, alongside the United States and Canada, in number of hectares planted. And the adoption of the technology is spreading fastest in some of the world’s poorer countries, … [Read more...] about New Markets for Biotech

Vegetarians and carnivores rejoice! A team of researchers from Oregon State University recently patented a new kind of red seaweed that, when fried, tastes exactly like crispy, delicious bacon. Yes, you read that correctly. Someone literally just figured out a way to make a vegetable — which grows in the ocean — taste strikingly similar to lip-smacking, salt-cured pork. Furthermore, this tender red algae features twice the nutritional amount of kale, boasts up to 16 percent protein in dry weight, and comes packed with a copious amount of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.If only we could contact Ron Swanson for comment.OSU researcher Chris Langdon spent the last 15 years creating and growing this particular strain of seaweed — which goes by the name dulse — at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. While basic versions of dulse grown in habitats along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, Langdon’s … [Read more...] about OSU biologists have successfully cultivated a new kind of seaweed that tastes like bacon

If you’ve ever had bibimbap in a stone pot, you know the rice at the bottom of the bowl starts to turn brown and crispy as you dig your way through the meal. It turns out that tanned clump of rice is a big deal in Persian cooking. Known as tahdig, it’s an extremely popular dish. “At Iranian family feasts, tahdig is possibly the one dish that will disappear entirely from the table — there are simply no leftovers. Ever,” writes Louisa Shafia at The Splendid Table. She describes the taste as somewhere between popcorn and fried chicken.The technique for making tahdig involves boiling the rice, frying the crispy layer, then cooking it again. Soheil Shahrooz hopes to simplify the process with his Crispy Rice Cooker. “We wanted to bring a staple of traditional cultures to the new age,” he tells Digital Trends. He and his wife, Dr. Dorsay Nia Shahrooz, started the company, and his brother, Sepehr Seeno Shahrooz, is the vice president and head of … [Read more...] about Crispy Rice Cooker lets you push a button and walk away

Liviu Babitz’s eyes well up when he mentions his young son. In a past life Babitz was forced to be stoic, in perpetual danger as he worked for a secretive human-rights group in corrupt countries. Today he’s a cyborg, standing in front of crowds to champion the cause of biohacking.As CEO of startup Cyborg Nest, Babitz is among a new breed of hackers-cum-entrepreneurs hoping to capitalize on putting technology into the human body. Their industry, biohacking, began as a hobby for a small group of tinkerers who implanted magnets into the flesh of their fingers and rice-sized radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in their hands. It’s since grown to an only slightly larger community of enthusiasts who share experiments on forums and strive to push the body’s boundaries.Babitz and others want to make biohacking more mainstream. They think artificial senses and implanted devices will be commonplace in society’s foreseeable future, and they’re … [Read more...] about A look inside the budding battle between cyborg supply startups

As State of the Union addresses go, Obama's last week really wasn't bad -- with two exceptions.He kind of missed the Steve Jobs' lesson that if you are going to imply magical, what you say should be amazing. Having our "Sputnik moment" be faster trains, more electric cars, and faster Internet was hardly magic, though had it replaced this one in 1930 by Franklin Roosevelt, it would have met that test.The other part was universal healthcare. This had been rammed through in a way that the opposing party felt was a personal affront, and unless it is replaced, it will likely become the wall preventing much progress over the next two years.Both showcase the weakness in the current administration as a sacrifice of quality in favor of quantity, but I do think things are improving. One area is in the technology market, and I'd like this week to be my State of the Technology Union column.After that I'll end with my product of the week -- a product that will either define a new class or end up … [Read more...] about OPINION The State of the Technology Union

Security Farmers to get rice-growing advice via text messagesLos Baños, Philippines ? Farmers in the "texting capital" of the world - the Philippines - will soon have nutrient management advice tailored specifically to their rice crops delivered to their mobile phones. Dr. Roland Buresh, part of the International Rice Research (IRRI) team that has joined the Philippine Department of Agriculture to establish the system, says that after responding to a series of simple questions about their rice paddy, farmers would receive an automated text reply recommending what amounts, sources, and timings of fertilizer are needed for profitable rice production in their paddy. In Rice Today July?September 2010, Buresh explains the technology and what they hope to achieve. In Cambodia, farmers are further advancing technology adoption of mechanical harvesters and dryers, better storage techniques, among other postharvest technologies. In this issue, we hear how the technologies are spreading … [Read more...] about Farmers to get rice-growing advice via text messages

In an effort to turn the tables on computer worms that can clog and confound corporate networks, Cisco has teamed with three major antivirus vendors to make networks smarter -- and therefore safer -- with trusted agents that can cut off infected or compromised nodes while keeping the overall network up and running.Acknowledging that the collaboration with competitors was forced by customer requests and concern about persistent infection from worms new and old, Cisco and antivirus vendors Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro said the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) program will more intelligently enable routers to enforce access privileges when a computer or "endpoint" connects to the network.The companies -- which said they worked together to develop the program whereby Cisco "trust agents" reside on endpoints and communicate with the network -- hope to corral rogue network connections unprotected by antivirus software.Aberdeen Group research vice president Jim Hurley … [Read more...] about Cisco Declares War on Worms with Trust Agents

Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Sloan School of Management have written an interesting book for our times -- our economic times -- with an appealing metaphor that any technologist will appreciate.Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, is short and to the point. The book ought to be required reading.The subject matter is employment growth, or the lack thereof in this rather austere recovery, and the effect on future jobs and growth. More specifically, it is about the changing relationship between humans and their creation, the computer -- the almost-thinking machine -- and how it can outcompete its masters not only in routine manufacturing tasks but, increasingly, in jobs that were once thought to be the exclusive province of human thinking.The metaphor from futurist Ray Kurzweil holds the narrative together and is … [Read more...] about INSIGHTS Race Against the Machine

We are nearing year-end, and that means it's time for my annual year in review. This is not an attempt at a quantitative inventory -- just my assessment of things that happened that will matter in the long run.From my spot, it looks like marketing took a big step toward greater relevance in 2013, the importance of being a partner in an ecosystem increased -- as did the significance of software platforms -- and reports of CRM's demise were greatly exaggerated.It's not just the fact that Oracle bought Eloqua that made marketing significant -- and the price reportedly paid, US$800 million, still seems light to me. Marketo had a successful IPO; Microsoft bought Net Breeze and Marketing Pilot; and Salesforce.com declared its Marketing Cloud. In 2013, marketing was definitely on the agenda. It helped that all of the above-mentioned companies did something revolutionary.Instead of killing their new acquisitions by trying too hard to fit them into the corporate portfolio, the big buyers of … [Read more...] about INSIGHTS It Was a Very Good Marketing, Partners and Platform Year